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Cooperative Learning Teams Overview
Asynchronous guide for working with students to develop cooperative learning teams.
Strategies
Graduate Profile as Tool for Accelerating Personalized Learning Opportunities
Liberty Public Schools grounds instructional decision making in developing graduate competencies in five areas. Leaders used this profile to advance deeper learning models as well as to create virtual, personalized learning opportunities.
Strategies
Focusing Remote Learning Through Standards Prioritization
In response to the pandemic, Renton School District brought together collaborative teams of teachers who taught the same subject and grade level to identify priority standards and learning activities for focusing remote learning.
Strategies
Reimagining High School Grading
In response to high failure rates during remote learning in the pandemic, Renton School District surfaced solutions by inviting administrators, teachers, and students to rethink grading.
Strategies
Start Safe SEL Lessons
In response to the pandemic, Renton School District prioritized students’ health and wellbeing by embedding social-emotional learning in the first 15-minutes of class, a strategy called “Start Safe SEL.”
Strategies
Focusing Instruction Through Standards Prioritization and Model Units
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School District chose to focus teaching and learning on the most important content for each grade-level and subject-area.
Strategies
Distance-Learning MOU With a Focus on Instructional Aims
Leaders at Monterey Peninsula Unified School Districts worked to negotiate an agreement with union leaders that clearly defined expectations for remote instruction in ways that tied to student-centered aims.
Strategies
Collecting Student Feedback on Edtech Tools
Collecting student feedback is a critical piece of understanding whether specific tools are useful, engaging, and beneficial to their learning.
Strategies
Podcasts: TLA's "Beyond Brick and Mortar"
The "Beyond Brick and Mortar" podcast series features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way.
Strategies
Conducting an Edtech Inventory
Before building or strengthening edtech processes, school and system leaders need to first take stock of what tools currently exist in their school system.
Strategies
NYC School Without Walls' Approach to Student and Family Engagement
Through their participation in TLA's Strategy Lab: Virtual & Hybrid program, NYC School Without Walls sought to increase engagement with asynchronous learning and provide clarity for both students and families about expectations for virtual learning.
